The hybrid media system: Politics and power

Book Review: The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics:

Much has been said about the power of new communication technologies, particularly the Internet, to reshape politics – from its impact on vital democratic processes, such as political participation and deliberation, to its mobilizing function in large-scale social movements. Considerably less attention has been paid to the role of the Internet in changing the very fabric of the political organizations that can foster such outcomes. It is this organizational layer of American politics that David Karpf sets out to explore in The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy. In particular, the author seeks to understand how political organizations emerging in the early 2000s have harnessed technological affordances for political mobilization. The book is conceptually divided into three parts. The opening chapter introduces broad assumptions about Internet effects on politics, and briefly describes the emerging online ecology of American political organizations. The next three chapters offer detailed insights into three distinct models of Internet-mediated political organizations, or “netroots”, and their use of technology via representative case studies. The last three chapters are devoted to exploring “netroots infrastructure organizations,” or the organizations that provide netroots with infrastructure support, as well as the perceived gap between liberals and conservatives in organizational infrastructure. Concluding thoughts concerning the problematic aspects as well as the hopeful prospects of the Internet’s role in politics are presented in the end. In order to clearly position the main thesis of The MoveOn Effect, Karpf starts out by debunking two of the most prevalent myths about The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy

The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy

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Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns:

This article is a case study which focuses on organisational and cultural change associated with the incorporation of a college which provided pre‐ and post‐registration nursing and midwifery education into a much larger institution within the university sector. Among the issues addressed is whether transformational change, such as that represented by incorporation or merger, can be used by managers to successfully refashion the culture of the organisation, making more effective than traditional or discipline‐based management structures. It examines the barriers to change and the various considerations that arose in determining the fit of managerial styles and assesses the outcomes of the process of change.

Overcoming cultural barriers to change.

This article examines how the British press covered the debate around a prisoner's right to vote. It shows how Conservative ministers were put under pressure in early 2011 by newspapers on the right of the political spectrum to abandon proposals to end the ‘blanket ban’ on a prisoner's right to vote. Modification of the ban could have brought the UK into compliance with treaty obligations linked to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and judgments of the European Court. The focus of the debate, both in parliament and in the newspapers, was on sovereignty and judicial interference. Our research shows that very little of the media debate on a prisoner's right to vote was about human rights. Instead, outrage on the issue of prisoners' rights was linked to opposition to pro-Europeans within the coalition government and demands for a radical shake-up in Britain's relationship with the European Union (EU). The reform of human rights legislation and breaking the link with the European Convention is likely to be a centrepiece of Conservative policy at the next general election. The article is based on qualitative research of newspaper coverage in the period between February and mid-April 2011 when the prisoners' rights' issue came to the fore, and audience reception studies involving focus groups.

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Human rights and prisoners' rights: the British press and the shaping of public debate

Using the 2014 Scottish independence referendum as a case study, this article asks first, to what extent is the use of digital communications technologies, in particular social media, associated wi...

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Online allies and tricky freelancers: understanding the differences in the role of social media in the campaigns for the Scottish Independence Referendum

Social housing providers confront an array of risks strategically and operationally. Recently, models of hybrid organisations have been developed to understand how non-profit landlords are changing in response to market and other external pressures. In this paper, we draw on a multidisciplinary conceptual framework of external and internal risks, multiple stakeholders and resilience strategies, as well as the notion of hybridity, in order to make sense of change in Scotland's social housing sector. The paper draws on elite interviews as well as case studies that seek to capture the range of approaches adopted by providers. Although providers handle and respond to risk in a variety of ways, risk management is a necessary part of the management of social housing businesses. Increasingly, providers are concerned with questions of resilience – the need to make themselves as organisations more resilient and also to promote greater resilience amongst tenants as a way of mitigating risk. Our research suggests th...

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Risk and resilience in the Scottish social housing sector: ‘We're all risk managers’

In recent years the gap between levels of unemployment in the North and South of Great Britain has widened very considerably. Not all of the South is prosperous; the London conurbation contains many areas that are desperately deprived and there are pockets of high unemployment outside the capital as well as in it. Equally, not all of the North is poor; some places, most notably market towns in the better off agricultural and tourist areas have flourished economically over the last decade. In part, this unevenness within regions is a product of a second related trend, whereby unemployment has increased much more rapidly in the larger towns and cities than it has in predominantly rural areas. These two processes together have led to a growing geographical and social polarisation between north and south on the one hand, and between the larger towns and cities and the rest of the country on the other.

Des McNulty

Papers

Overcoming cultural barriers to change.

Human rights and prisoners' rights: the British press and the shaping of public debate

Online allies and tricky freelancers: understanding the differences in the role of social media in the campaigns for the Scottish Independence Referendum

Risk and resilience in the Scottish social housing sector: ‘We're all risk managers’

Local Dimensions of Closure